Animoto is an online tool for turning photos into music videos.
Easy to Use:
Go to animoto.com to register. As an educator, you may request an all-access account (a $30/year value for free!). Animoto will check your details and in about a week, you'll receive an email allowing you to activate your educator account.
Three Easy Steps to Make an Animoto
Select your pictures and import them to Animoto.
Choose your music. You can choose something from yhour own collection (as long as it's not going online...remember copyright laws) or you may choose from Animotos large collection of copyright free music.
Finalize your video by choosing a playback speed and a title. Click DONE and in a few minutes Animoto will create your video. You can then email it, embed it on a website, or watch it straight from the site.
How can Animoto be used in Education?
introduce a topic to students
demonstrate a skill
students can use them as a way to showcase a skill, project, or event
visual reports
demonstrate scientific experiments
historical timelines or events
digital storytelling
...more???
What skills do Animotos ask students to use?
visual literacy
mastery of online tools
summarizing
concise writing
analysis
synthesis of information
justification of choices/decisions
...many more!!
http://loveoflit.wikispaces.com/Animoto+Videos -- this is our very own Heyworth Junior HIgh Love of Literature class animoto page! Check out what our 8th graders are doing! http://animoto.com/education/features -- this is Animoto's own page for educators...be sure to check out the case study examples! Here are some more examples to take a look at...
An Art Project
A Book Series introduction
Today saw the first of the Chilean Miners freed from underground after 69 long days. Some children in 5B, Tawana, Ellen, Gurdeep and Idrees, have produced a short animoto video about the events. Enjoy.
- introduce a topic to students
- demonstrate a skill
- students can use them as a way to showcase a skill, project, or event
- visual reports
- demonstrate scientific experiments
- historical timelines or events
- digital storytelling
- ...more???
What skills do Animotos ask students to use?http://loveoflit.wikispaces.com/Animoto+Videos -- this is our very own Heyworth Junior HIgh Love of Literature class animoto page! Check out what our 8th graders are doing!
http://animoto.com/education/features -- this is Animoto's own page for educators...be sure to check out the case study examples!
Here are some more examples to take a look at...